Journaling my genealogy research online seems to be the right thing to do for the future of my research rather than hiding it away in some box or drawer in my home. This blog is more of a diary of my research which expands as I go. Know that a post from last year may have more updated research in a different post. I love the discovery process which has resulted in such wonderful success in finding my roots. If you comment and are looking for a response, please leave me an email address.

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Flanagan / Maguire / O'Brien

Index To Specific Posts
(All titles are clickable to take you to the original archived post.)

This index includes posts about my Flanagan's of Napa, California and Termonfechin, Louth, Ireland. Buried in this research is information about Kate Flanagan (Catherine Mary O'Brien) who's family originated in Castleconnell, Limerick/Clare, Ireland. Kate and my research about her are indicated here because she is such a huge part of the Flanagan's story in Napa.

The credit for most of the research for the Flanagan's abroad goes to my relatives in Ireland. In fact, a large chunk of all of this research is credited to them. From a living relative who researched our Flanagan line for a thesis to the Flanagan's of Termonfechin who saved all of the family documents, you just can't find this level of historical information with a family of everyday, Roman Catholic, farmers of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries in Ireland. Or can you? And, were they so everyday? Read below for yourself.

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"It is a most useful art, this photographing, by which one can from one end of the world to the other [send] a pretty correct representation without writing a word about it."

---Michael Flanagan, written in 1873

The Essence of Genealogy

Below you will find a poem that I found in a "Birthday Book" that belonged to my Grandma. It was the book's dedication by Rev. Hugo W. Hoffmann. I think it represents some of what genealogy is all about.